[vorbis] RC2 better than RC3 ???

Jeff Flowers jsflowers at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 14 11:22:55 PST 2002



> Clearly, the benchmark for any audio format is
> the quality/bitrate ratio. Other formats already
> offer audio quality exceeding that of CD. (FLAC, for
> example).. The whole point of a lossless format is to
> cram acceptable audio quality into the narrowest
> possible stream. That being said, for me the main
> advantage of Ogg over MP3 is that Ogg is free
> software, and MP3 is not. The true gapless
> playback doesn't hurt either.

<p>I agree. I also really like the tagging in Ogg Vorbis. Plus I enjoy the way
oggenc will use the title tag to name a file for me when I encode it.

<p>Jeff

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